Bill Morris of Blue Star Recyclers, which today has 52 employees, 48 of whom have a diagnosed disability. | Screenshot of online presentation.
In today’s labor market, companies may only dream about having less than 10% employee turnover and little to no absenteeism in their more-repetitive jobs. But data demonstrates those are some of the advantages of employing adults with disabilities.
Iron Mountain will acquire 80% of ITRenew shares for $725 million in cash, with plans to purchase the remaining stake over the next three years. | Bandersnatch/Shutterstock
Data management and asset disposition giant Iron Mountain this month announced it will acquire a majority stake in ITRenew, a growing company with a focus on data center decommissioning.
Sims Lifecycle Services invested about $7 million to open facilities in Illinois and Tennessee to inventory, configure and ship out used data center equipment. | Fishman64/Shutterstock
With the pandemic continuing to hamper supply chains for new electronics, Sims Lifecycle Services has made significant investments in helping data centers reuse their old equipment.
This summer, TerraCycle’s EasyPak program launched mail-in serialized data destruction and electronics recycling services for businesses. | Courtesy of TerraCycle
TerraCycle has launched collection programs that will feed businesses’ used electronics to Clean Earth for data destruction and recycling. Clean Earth also recently announced its own mail-in option.
Pittsburgh officials announced the city is seeking a new company to manage its e-scrap collection program in the wake of a recent processor closure. | Jacob Boomsma/Shutterstock
A Pennsylvania e-scrap company has permanently closed, canceling collection events that had been planned in the Pittsburgh area.
Sims Lifecycle Solutions developed a tool to help clients take stock of the fact that asset retirement is an integral part of sustainability goals. | Vahe Aramyan/Shutterstock
Global ITAD and e-scrap processing company Sims Lifecycle Services recently launched a “sustainability calculator,” a tool to quantify for clients the environmental benefits associated with asset recovery.
N2S has been conducting bioleaching trials on Colt Technology Services’ end-of-life electronics. | Funtap/Shutterstock
An electronics reuse and recycling company is conducting trials of a technology to recover precious metals from end-of-life network and data center equipment.
Through the Digial Dreams Project, individual consumers and organizations can donate or trade in devices for students in need. | Farknot Architect/Shutterstock
New Jersey-based PlanITROI has kicked off an effort to help get used computers into the hands of underserved and disadvantaged students so they can study at home.
Liquid Technology announced an expansion that doubles the size of the company’s Brooklyn, N.Y. facility, bringing it to 62,000 square feet. | Courtesy of Liquid Technology
Liquid Technology this fall opened a 31,000-square-foot addition to its existing Brooklyn, N.Y. processing location. The company cited customers’ sustainability goals driving greater ITAD demand.
E-Scrap & E-Reuse 2021 drew roughly 950 attendees Nov. 8-10 to the Swissôtel in downtown Chicago. | daleyphoto.com
Hundreds of electronics recycling and reuse leaders gathered this week for a conference that explored how stakeholders have coped with COVID-19 – and detailed what comes next for the sector.